Re: INSTALLING DEBIAN ON LAPTOP

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:41:09 +0200

noway <nothere@blank.com> wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>> What do you mean by "an external floppy drive"? There is no such thing!
>> Do you mean a usb floppy drive? If so, I doubt it will fly!
> there are such things as external floppy drives for laptops, when i

You don't understand - it's an internal floppy drive, attached by an
external cable.

Think about it. The electrons don't know whether they're inside or
outside the laptop case.

> worked as a pc sales rep, we had tons of toshiba and compaq buisness
> laptops with external floppys. and this was in the days before USB was

Please return to cleaning telephone handsets ...

> even Implemented. I belive they used a sort of IDE emulation mode that
> made the bios trick the system that there was a real floppy controller.

No. It's a normal floppy connected to the normal floppy controller on
the normal motherboard, as normal. I've had "external" floppies in that
trivial sense on all my laptops since my first 486 (all toshibas or
ibms). They're internal floppies, connected by a cable. I suspect the
OP is talking about a USB floppy, which his install kernel probably
does not have a driver for!

Peter

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